Our security teams are always watching out for new threats to our users. We also recommend that you enable two-step verification. However, for any of you who’ve used your Dropbox password on other sites, we recommend you change it on Dropbox and other services. If you don’t receive a prompt, you don’t need to do anything. We provide a password strength meter to help you. If prompted, all you need to do is choose a new and strong password. We’re doing this purely as a preventive measure, and there is no indication that your account has been improperly accessed. If you signed up for Dropbox prior to mid-2012 and haven’t changed your password since, you’ll be prompted to update it the next time you sign in. Also, please be alert to spam or phishing because email addresses were included in the list. We recommend that you create strong, unique passwords, and enable two-step verification. If you signed up for Dropbox before mid-2012 and reused your password elsewhere, you should change it on those services. This reset ensures that e ven if these passwords are cracked, they can’t be used to access Dropbox accounts. We then emailed all users we believed were affected and completed a password reset for any one who hadn’t updated their password since mid- 2012. We first heard rumors about this list two weeks ago and immediately began our investigation. Based on our analysis, the credentials were likely obtained in 2012. We’re very sorry this happened and would like to clear up what’s going on. The list of email addresses with hashed and salted passwords is real, however we have no indication that Dropbox user accounts have been improperly accessed. While there are other free alternatives such as Bitwarden (opens in new tab) available, if you already use Dropbox's cloud storage service than it makes a great deal of sense to use the company's password manager as well, especially now that it will allow you to store the credentials of up to 50 online accounts for free.UPDATE 8/31 at 2:15pm PT Since our original post, there have been many reports about the exposure of 68 million Dropbox credentials from 2012. With Passwords in Dropbox Basic, users will be able to store their 50 most important passwords in one secure place, access their passwords from anywhere with automatic syncing on up to three devices and securely share any of their passwords with anyone, though the company says the last feature is coming soon.Īs the number of data breaches (opens in new tab) and cyberattacks continues to increase, using a password manager can provide you with peace of mind as you know all of your passwords are safely stored in one secure place. Even with a free Dropbox Basic (opens in new tab) plan, users will soon be able to try a limited version of Passwords.
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